LLoyd's Bank Foundation Deaf and Disabled People's Organisations Fund (£75,000.)

This programme is aimed at registered charities, CICs and CIOs which are led by and working for Deaf and Disabled people.

About LLoyd's Bank Foundation Deaf and Disabled People's Organisations Fund

Opportunity Details

Date Published: July 02, 2025
Application Deadline: September 04, 2025
Category: Grants Persons with Disabilities
Oppotunity Locations: United Kingdom
Eligible Locations: United Kingdom

This programme is for small and local charities and CICs with an income between £25,000 to £500,000 that are led by and working with Deaf and Disabled people who are experiencing poverty.

This programme is aimed at registered charities, CICs and CIOs which are led by and working for Deaf and Disabled people.

Your organisation will work directly with Deaf and Disabled people over the long term to support them to have more choice and control over their lives, access their rights and entitlements, and challenge the barriers they face.

This year, they will make 41 grants across England and Wales.

Note: They use the term ‘Disabled people’ to refer to the following groups of people: people with physical impairments, visual impairments, hearing impairments, people with long term health conditions, people with invisible impairments, people with learning difficulties, people who experience mental distress and people who are neurodivergent. They use the term ‘Deaf people’ to refer to people whose first language is British Sign Language.

Sponsor Organisation: LLoyd's Bank Foundation

Benefits of LLoyd's Bank Foundation Deaf and Disabled People's Organisations Fund

Organisations can apply for a three-year unrestricted grant of £75,000.
We can fund up to £500 of accessibility support to enable you to apply for this programme, including:

BSL interpreters
Language translation
Scribes
Dyslexia software

LLoyd's Bank Foundation Deaf and Disabled People's Organisations Fund Requirements

Registered Charities and CIOs must:

Be registered as a charity or a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) with the Charity Commission if you are registered in England and Wales or the Index for Charities if registered in the Isle of Man. We will ask for your charity registration number at the start of your application.
Have at least one set of annual accounts showing as ‘received’ on the Charity Commission website, covering a twelve-month operating period. If you are based in the Isle of Man, we will ask you to submit your latest set of accounts.
Have a Board of at least three trustees in place who are not related to other Board members and have their names appearing on your Charity Commission records.

Or, if you are a Community Interest Companies:

Be Limited by Guarantee or Limited by Shares under Schedule 2 and be registered with Companies House. We will review your Articles of Association that show you have an asset lock in place and that you have named the organisation that will receive the company’s assets on dissolution. If there is no named organisation, this will need to be in place before your application can progress to full assessment.
Have at least one set of annual accounts filed with Companies House that show a track record of frontline delivery. You must also have filed your CIC Annual Report CIC34 for the last year. We will ask you to submit your profit and loss account for your latest financial year.
Have at least three unrelated Directors sitting on your Board who are registered with Companies House.
No Director should hold more than 50% of the company’s voting rights or have the sole right to remove other Directors.

All organisations must:

Be based and working in England, Wales or the Isle of Man. Most of your organisation’s time and money is spent on activities in England, Wales and/or the Isle of Man helping people living in these areas.
Have an annual income of between £25,000 and £500,000 in the last set of published accounts. This is total income and, in the case of consolidated accounts, should cover all entities within those accounts.
Have a bank account in the name of the organisation with unrelated signatories. If the application is successful, the grant must be paid into this account.
The majority of people in positions of power (including directors/trustees, the CEO and senior managers) must not be related nor live at the same address. Where there are related parties, we will consider the relationship, conflicts of interest and loyalty, the balance of power of the related directors/trustees, and how this is managed.
Have a track record of delivering support, activity or services, for at least one year, to people aged 18 and over. You must currently be delivering these services. If your organisation has recently merged, then this must apply to at least one organisation pre-merger.
Not include religious activity as a part of the services delivered unless the charity has been established to support people specifically of that faith.
If you provide therapy/counselling as part of your services, the individuals providing the therapy/counselling must hold registration with one of the Professional Standards Authority accredited registers for counselling and psychotherapy and your charity must have a process in place for checking their registration on a regular basis.
Have a safeguarding policy in place. We will explore what safeguarding means to your organisation, how it fits with your mission and values, and your approach to safeguarding across your organisation.
Have a Designated Safeguarding Lead/ Officer (DSL/O). This person will be accountable for your safeguarding practice and will be appropriately trained. In most cases we expect the DSL/O to have undertaken “Designated Safeguarding Lead training” This may be called as such or may be called Level 3 training in England or Level C training in Wales.
Hold Public Liability Insurance.
Be an independent organisation. We will look at any formal associations you have with other organisations, parent bodies, or group structures. We will check that the Board or Directors of the applicant organisation has full control over its work and any conflicts of interest.
If you have a live grant with Lloyds Bank Foundation, it must end before 31 December 2026.

Application Date and Process

If you are eligible to apply for funding, you can start your application process by clicking 'Apply now' below. After you’ve entered your details on our sign-up form, you will be sent a link to access the application form in their online portal where they will ask you questions about your charity's work.

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Live webinar:16 July 2025 (sign up for this webinar by clicking here.)